From March 11-19, CLDP, hosted bilateral stakeholder roundtables in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan for the Regional Expert Level Working Group on Digital Trade. The goal of the Digital Trade Working Group is to engage with stakeholders in the region to develop an open, inclusive, and...

CLDP, in cooperation with the Tashkent State University of Law, will host Central Asia Vis Moot Phase I training in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The Vis Moot is an international arbitration competition, which takes place annually in Vienna, Austria (https://vismoot.pace.edu/). The December Phase I training...

CLDP, in cooperation with the Astana International Financial Center’s International Arbitration Center (IAC) and the Caspian University, is conducting Central Asia Vis Moot Phase I training in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The Vis Moot is an international arbitration competition, which takes place annually in...

CLDP, in cooperation with USTR, USDA, and USAID, hosted a virtual meeting, which engaged representatives from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and the Kyrgyz Republic to discuss sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures and notification to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and...

On November 1-2, CLDP, in collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Business Facilitation Program and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Gender & Economic Inclusion, led the Central Asia Regional Women’s Economic Empowerment Working...

From October 28, 2021 to January 21, 2022 CLDP, in cooperation with the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution and the University of Pittsburgh, is partnering with U.S. pro bono lawyers to provide legal writing sessions for 41 teams from 27 countries, which are set to compete in the 29th Annual...

CLDP, in cooperation with the Center for International Legal Education (CILE) of the University of Pittsburgh College of Law, is hosted a virtual Vis Moot training workshop for the incoming 2021-2022 CLDP sponsored university teams who will compete in the 29th Annual Willem C. Vis International...

On April 13-15, 2021, CLDP organized the second virtual meeting of the WEE Working Group and invited private sector women entrepreneurs from the five Central Asian countries. Experts for the 3-day virtual program included U.S. government officials, international NGOs, American and local companies...

On July 14-15, CLDP virtually gathered over 35 government experts from Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan with U.S.-based interagency advisors. The meeting provided a unique platform for interactions among the Central Asian experts and set up a series of...